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Hello and welcome to the transfer window.

The podcast that brings you the news before it becomes news, as well as insight analysis, and of course, debate into all the subjects you're talking about in football.

I'm in McGarry and with me as always as Duncan Castles.

Today we've got updates, important ones, from Newcastle, Chelsea, amongst others,

as well as our popular heroes and villains segment towards the end of the pod.

We will start, however, in the northeast of England.

And Duncan, you've led the way on this story with regards to the potential takeover of Newcastle United

by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund, as well as, of course, PCP, Amanda Stavely and others.

We've been very quiet with regards to any kind of information on what's happening.

And of course, Newcastle United fans are very nervous, understandably, about whether or not their much-loved chairman, Mike Ashley, might not be leaving the club.

What can you tell us, Duncan, in terms of where things stand at this moment in time?

Yeah, well, we're now a remarkable three and a half months into the big Geordie

takeover documents submitted to the Premier League on April 9th.

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